5. Back on track?

It’s still all change in the UK retail grocery market but there have been recent glimpses that maybe the worst is over.

The latest quarterly data from Kantar Worldpanel for the first quarter of 2015 showed that the discounters, Aldi and Lidl, continued to dramatically outperform their larger rivals in a virtually static grocery market, as they had done throughout 2014. At the top end, Waitrose continue to perform strongly despite the difficult market conditions but have now been overtaken by Aldi in terms of market share.

Major retailer shares for quarter ending March 2015

Some recent news from some of the big names in the UK retail grocery sector:

To mark the 2nd anniversary of Horsegate, BPEX published research undertaken to measure the level of consumer trust in their meat supply. Over 90% of respondents expressed ‘a lot’ or ‘a fair amount’ of trust in meat purchased from butchers shops – the equivalent figure for supermarkets was 69% and just 17% for fast-food outlets.